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Re: Default Browser

 

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:53:23 -0000, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Firefox has its good points. But packed with lots of plugins it also sucks at memory usage.
So Chromium +1 , because:
+ FAST (I mean really fast, the time I start firefox the same time, I open almost 10 Tabs within chromium) + Stable (Thirdparty plugins, like JAVA and Flash don't bring the browser down if(when) crashing) + Lots of extensions (not comparable to firefox but far better than midori or arora) + You don't need to make google the default search engine, to call this browser chromium (see firefox: can only be called firefox, if search engine is google and we don't touch the default profile, thats insane)
+ html5 youtube+veoh (x264) is working quite well with codecs installed
- Chromium misses SSL encryption in the linux version still, so https sites without certificate
- html5 ogg theora playback seems to be broken since quite a few builds

So we need to make a choice:

Firefox (slow but low memory usage) OR
Chromium (blazing fast and a little more memory usage) ?

I am definitely for Chromium

It’s swings and roundabouts isn’t it.
Firefox is well known, works with most banks, it’s failings are known, making it easier to assist new users. Chromium is quite well known, not recognised by most banks, it’s failings alter with each build making it hard to support. Midori, Who, what? 'Your browser is not currently supported' is a constant message from many web sites, so new supporting it for new users could be a real headache.

As Lucid is LTS release, I know this isn’t the case for Lubuntu but some people might get that impression, I say go with Firefox and monitor the progress of the other two for pssible inclusion in 10.10

As for me, I’m using Opera for WEB, mail and IRC.

--
Steve



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